On July 24, 1969, Dick Powers was a 23-year-old Navy lieutenant on the Apollo 11 Recovery ship USS Hornet. Picked by the carrier’s captain to serve as the aide to President Nixon, Powers recounts the ...
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USS Hornet celebrates Apollo 11 splashdown anniversary
The USS Hornet Sea, Air, and Space Museum celebrates the anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 splashdown on July 18 with a ...
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Celebrating the Apollo 11 mission and safe return
After their Apollo 11 space capsule landed in the ocean on July 24, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were recovered by the USS Hornet. David Boitano tours the museum, talks with ...
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley invites members of the media to interview NASA experts and retired NASA employees of the Apollo program on the 50 th anniversary of the ...
Docked at a quiet, out-of-the-way pier near what was once Alameda's bustling Naval Air Station, the retired USS Hornet sits as a monument to the Navy, but also to the U.S. space program that ...
Apollo 8 astronauts (l. to r.) William Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman train in the command module one month before their mission.Francis Miller / Time Life Pictures / Getty Commander Frank Borman ...
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